B-type star · blue-white star

Gam Ara

1,113 lybrightness mag 3.31B1Ib

Also catalogued as HR 6462 · HD 157246 · HIP 85267

12,489 K

temperature

3.31

apparent magnitude

4,813× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1Ib

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,113 years

at light speed from Earth

2.16×

as hot as the Sun

4,813×

the Sun's light output

-4.36

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Gam AraB-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6438 →37 ly apart
HR 6487 →130 ly apart
HR 6622 →150 ly apart
HR 6374 →150 ly apart
HR 6576 →160 ly apart
HR 6215 →160 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1
1Sig Ara →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.